Holding the zero / Gerald Seymour.
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TextPublisher: London : Hodder, 2013Copyright date: ©2000Edition: Paperback editionDescription: x, 413 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781444760378; 9781444760385 (ebook)Subject(s): Snipers -- Iraq -- Fiction | Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Iraq -- FictionGenre/Form: Suspense fiction. DDC classification: 823.914 Summary: Suspense fiction. Gus Peake should have kept his job and stayed at home, but an old family debt of friendship draws him to the remote wastes of Northern Iraq and to a savage forgotten war between Kurdish guerillas and Saddam Hussein's military strength. To the brutal, no-quarter combat, Peake can bring the skills he has learned as a marksman. But there is no room for mistakes on the field of battle and he must quickly learn to deal out random death at long distance. He also has to help the guerillas to reach their goal, the city of Kirkuk the old capital of the Kurdish people. From Baghdad, Iraq sends Major Karim Aziz, the most dedicated and professional sniper in Saddam's army. For both men their duel, from which only one can walk away, becomes an obsession. And it will only take one shot, echoing in the mountains and vallegs, to settle the score.
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Originally published: [London] : Bantam, 2000.
Suspense fiction. Gus Peake should have kept his job and stayed at home, but an old family debt of friendship draws him to the remote wastes of Northern Iraq and to a savage forgotten war between Kurdish guerillas and Saddam Hussein's military strength. To the brutal, no-quarter combat, Peake can bring the skills he has learned as a marksman. But there is no room for mistakes on the field of battle and he must quickly learn to deal out random death at long distance. He also has to help the guerillas to reach their goal, the city of Kirkuk the old capital of the Kurdish people. From Baghdad, Iraq sends Major Karim Aziz, the most dedicated and professional sniper in Saddam's army. For both men their duel, from which only one can walk away, becomes an obsession. And it will only take one shot, echoing in the mountains and vallegs, to settle the score.
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